Open Government

[emperor]

It seems that the UK screwed up, and so the Video Recordings Act 1984 is currently unenforceable (and will be for 3 months, while we formally notify the EU). The Minister for Culture and Tourism, Barbara Follett MP, wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, telling him this, and advising him to try and suppress this information. Wikileaks has the letter here.

ETA Beeb article

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[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I was hoping that 25 years on, the moral panic over video nasties may have subsided (especially as most of the "banned" list have now, I believe, been legalised in recent years anyway). Though it seems that most of the press are still going with the "but now porn can be sold to children" angle.

I liked this article - the only mainstream article I've so far seen that covers the "video nasties" history of the law.